Tag: Creation-Covenant Connection
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The Cosmic Mountain, Part 3
The Cosmic Mountain Series continues. In this part, we look at the basic layout of the molten sea of Solomon’s temple, the camp of Israel, and compare these with God’s mandate to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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"For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee."
In a recent post, I mentioned that the plan of mercy is fundamental to the creation. It\’s one reason why the creation falls apart around those who reject the plan of mercy. In this post, I\’d like to give a few more examples of how the concept of mercy requires mortality. Mercy can only have…
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"Left by the hands of those who slew them to molder" versus "grafted into the true vine" (Creation-in-reverse)
My last post ended with a brief discussion of \”creation-in-reverse,\” which is my term for a process described in the scriptures in two different ways. Here is a very brief summary of each type: Covenant makers experience \”creation-in-reverse\” by \”rend[ing] that veil of unbelief\” (see Ether 4:15) and experiencing the \”light of the glory of…
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Noah, the ark, and "rest" — part 6 (God's rest)
Wherefore Enoch saw that Noah built an ark; and that the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in his own hand… Moses 7:43 In the last post, we discussed the behavior which provokes God’s wrath perhaps more than anything else — covenant rebellion. In today’s post, we’ll pivot to what I believe to be…
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Noah, the ark, and "rest" — part 3 (Enoch's vision of Noah's salvation)
With part 2 in this series about the connections between Noah and the everlasting covenant as a backdrop, let’s get into Noah’s role in this vision. Here’s what comes next: 42 And Enoch also saw Noah, and his family; that the posterity of all the sons of Noah should be saved with a temporal salvation;…
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A temple pattern in the Book of Mormon, continued — More about shaking
4 Yet now … be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts: 5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. 6 For thus…
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Echoes of Abraham and the creation account in 1 Nephi 17
I\’ve been studying 1 Nephi 17-18 over the past several weeks. I noticed several curious similarities between the account of finding Bountiful and building the ship and the story of Abraham\’s test in Genesis 22 (OT quotations below are from the NIV) and the creation account from Genesis 1. “Provide means” In verse 3, Nephi says: …if…
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Mormon and Moroni unfold the purpose of the creation
15 For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that ye may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night. (Moroni 7) Partaking of the forbidden fruit resulted in several inevitable consequences:…
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Another layer of meaning to "every good thing"
I wrote a blog post a while back about how \”every good thing\” in Moroni 7 links together two important themes in the chapter. In short, Mormon spends the first part of the chapter defining \”good\” and its source. Then he asks us to \”lay hold\” on it. The rest of the chapter is spent…
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Righteousness — Part 3
In the previous two parts (here and here), I have written about the term, righteousness, in a particular context that Margaret Barker provides in this paper. It is fascinating to me how such a common word in the scriptures can have so much meaning when new context is provided. It has both changed and added…
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